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Nai Nai's Nursery · Senior Member

Weighing your baby. . .

Buffington · Guru

Some use a baby weighing scale, some a postal scale, some just a digital scale from a department store. I don't thing the new mummies will be standing on a scale to see if the weight is spot on lol.

I sometimes use a can of vegetables or soup and "eyeball" it so I'm in the ball park. Just as long as you don't say the bub weighs 3 pounds and weighs 5 or something like that hehehe

Aviva · Senior Member

I have some Tanita scales upstairs, and a good scale down here that is Lcd digital. I just get on the scale with the baby...then get off and lay the baby down and then weigh myself. I end up with about 3 to 3.5 pounds on the smaller ones (like Zoe) and on my bigger babies they are around 4.5 to 5.5 lbs. My fairy babies are 3.5 lbs.

sara zata · Guru

I put mine in a plastic shopping bag, and hang them on a fishing scale . They only cost arround $7-8 AU. Thats what I weighed Mylee Rae with. XXXX June.

Nai Nai's Nursery · Senior Member

Thank you all so much!

Pat B., I had to chuckle when I read your answer. My husband is always telling me that it doesn't have to be exact since "everyone knows that babies gain and lose weight during the first month!"

karen · Senior Member

WOW June! what a great idea about the fishing scales, I was going to get a set of proper baby scales for when I put a baby on ebay but now I am going to pop along to a fishing tackle shop instead, LOL.

Buffington · Guru

All good ideas gals! Weight is weight right? No matter how you get it as long as it's fairly close.
That was funny Rosemarie lol hehehe. Guess we're a bunch of comedians eh? lol He is right though.

Now you want to talk an exact science here... I am almost done with my college classes to become a jeweler. Now that's an exact science. I do have to use a special scale and I have to be spot on with my weights (I use sterling silver and real gold). But with our babies, not so technical.

-- Edited by Buffington at 17:12, 2009-02-02

Poisonivy14 · Senior Member

i use a simple scale that you would use to wiegh yourself. i use the non- electronic one, so it's a little harder to tell. on my last doll i wanted to really wiegh her so she was more life- like in a way. after trying sooooo hard, my finished doll ended up wieghing 8 pounds! that was more than me!! because she is sooooo heavy i nicknamed her "tank"! hope you enjoyed this! biggrin

Nai Nai's Nursery · Senior Member

Tank! You are too funny! Thanks for a good laugh!

Buffington · Guru

Oh my! That was sooo funny. I'm still chuckling hehehe